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by gm

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Hello All, I know it is an old problem with lots of possible answers but this one has gotme stumped! I have re-installed XP on this computer over and over and it still freezes during startup (gets to the windows splash screen then the progress bar freezes).
I have now installed only Windows XP MCE, drivers and latest windows updates but it has started to freeze again!
I can only assume this must be hardware related? Memtest86 came back with no errors. Chkdsk says all is fine?
It has an Asus A8N-E motherboard with Nvidia Nforce4 Ultra chipset. 300GB SATA HDD. AMD Athlon64 CPU.
I am out of ideas. Please help! Graham.

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by internetspider

Please can u tell me that is there any error massege or any blue screen, i want to understand that how many minutes left to comlete windows, or how many percenage of copying file done, when it freezes. try to remove all devices and if there are any PCI or AGP cards, load ur default setting in BIOS, if the ram is DDR2 then try another one. please post other information that can help us to answer.

Thanks

by Former member

The same problems but with an easy answer. When you do a fresh install, please format (not a windows format) with a Linux (Ubuntu is best)disk or any other bootable disk/diskette such as a fdisk floppy. When done then reload Windows. Please post back if you have anymore problems.

by smagotiaux

if you disable plug and play in computer managment services,then restart and every ting works fine. Try removing any expantion card ie. modem then restart plug and play. I found that modems are the most likly culprit for freezing at start up.

hope this will help

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